Reece
Family in Union County, GA (part 3):
Quiller Frank Reece, Second Child of William and Mary Daniel Reece

Pvt. Quiller Frank Reece
(1843-1932)

Civil War - Confederacy

6th Georgia Cavalry,
Company F.

Quiller
Frank Reece (4.20.1843 – 10.13.1932) was the second of ten children
born to
William “Billy” Reece and Mary “Sarry” Daniel Reece.As the second child and first son, Quiller
held a responsible position in his parents’ household, for he helped to
provide
leadership and example for his older sister Sarah Elizabeth and the
eight other
children born into that Reece family.

UnionCounty
marriage records show that Quiller Frank Reece married Eliza C. Logan
on November 15,
1866.Thompson Collins (not the
first settler
Thompson Collins, but his son, Thompson), a justice of the peace in the
Choestoe District, performed the marriage ceremony.

This marriage was after the Civil War,
after Quiller had performed his duties as a soldier in the Confederacy
in the 6th
Georgia Cavalry, Company F, Hart’s Battalion, Smith’s Legion.When the men signed up for service for three
years, they had to furnish their own horse.Commanding officers of Reece’s Company F were not Georgians, and
were
not listed in the roster of those who served from Union.Records show that Quiller was taken prisoner
on December 18,
1862
in eastern Tennessee.Whether he remained in prison until the war
ended is not indicated in the records.Many years after he and his sweetheart married, in the year
1910, he
registered for a pension for his service in the Civil War.Whether he received it is not clear from
available records.

Although Quiller Frank Reece’s wife’s
name was listed in the Union marriage
records
as Eliza C. Logan, her full name was Elizabeth Clarica Adelia Logan
Reece
(06.04.1849 – 03.08.1936).Elizabeth
(shortened to
Eliza) was the youngest child of Drury Logan (1766-1855) and Mary
Addington
Logan (1759-1847).Eliza’s father,
Drury, was a brother to Major Frank Logan who owned and operated the
famous
Logan Turnpike across the mountain between Blairsville and Cleveland,
the route
over which farmers and traders hauled loads of produce to barter for
what they
could not grow in UnionCounty.Drury and Mary Addington Logan built their
double-story log cabin on Land Lot 50 in the Owltown District on the
south side
of the NottelyRiver. The house, remodeled through the years, still
stands today as a testament to the solid building of pioneer settlers.It was there that Eliza’s parents reared
their eleven children, nine of whom were born in Union.When Drury and Mary Logan were old and
incapacitated, it was their youngest child, Eliza and her husband
Quiller Frank
Reece who took her parents into their home and cared for them until
their
deaths.

Frank Quiller and Eliza Logan Reece
had a very large family, sixteen children, twelve of whom lived to
adulthood.Quiller Frank was primarily a
farmer by occupation, but he no doubt pursued other trades to bring in
extra
money to rear his large family. They were Methodists by denomination
and
faithful members of the ShadyGroveMehodistChurch.Upon their deaths, they were interred in the
Shady Grove cemetery where their monuments may be viewed today.

A
listing of the sixteen children of Quiller Frank and Elizabeth Clarica
Adelia
Logan Reece follows:

In looking over the list of Frank
Quiller and Elizabeth Clarica Adelia Logan Reece’s twelve adult
children and
who they married, it is easy to see how these descendants of the early
Reece
settlers married into families of other early settlers.Several of these Reece-connected families
remained within UnionCounty.Present citizens can look back with pride and
claim their roots to this Reece couple who worked hard to rear
dependable,
hard-working children.